impact assistance, nonprofit cooperatives

impact assistance, nonprofit cooperatives Sec. 611. Notwithstanding section 7 of the Act of August 23, 1912 (31 U.S.C, 679), the Secretary of Defense is authorized to use any funds appropriated to carry out the provisions of section 610 of the Military Construction Act, 1971 (84 Stat. 1224), to reimburse non-profit, mutual aid telephone cooperatives for their capital expenditures for the purchase and installation of nontactical communications equipment and related facilities, to the extent the Secretary determines that (1) such expenditures are not otherwise-recoverable by such cooperatives, (2) such expenditures were incurred as the direct result of the construction, installation, testing, and operation of the SAFEGUARD Anti ballistic Missile System, and (3) such cooperatives, as a result of the deactivation and termination of such system, would sustain an unfair and excessive financial burden in the absence of the financial assistance authorized by this section.